FIREWOOD AND TIMBER

Letter from A. D. Tsyurupa

5. XII. 1921

Comrade Tsyurupa!

From the papers you will see what the matter is.

Glavlescom is weak with us. (Smilga's departure for treatment will weaken it further).

It is therefore necessary to think about how to help matters with firewood, so that by spring or toward spring there is no collapse.

Lenin.

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RADIOGRAM TO THE MINSK PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
AND PROVINCIAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL*.

Minsk, Provincial Executive Committee, Provincial Economic Council.

December 19, 1921

I propose that you immediately develop exceptional energy in assisting all forest organs in fulfilling assignments for intensified delivery and procurement of firewood and timber during the critical winter months, strengthening volost labor departments [in] securing the fulfillment by the population of the norms imposed upon them for timber procurement and delivery under labor conscription and labor transport tax. Conduct intensified agitation campaigns in the countryside for the population's fulfillment of the assignment, applying measures of pressure where necessary. Immediately organize and transfer part of the procurement to the resources of the consumer itself, leaving to state funds the payment for procurement and delivery of firewood and timber for the most urgent needs of the state, such as: railways, water transport, military needs, major state industry, acting in accordance with the directives of Glavtop, Glavleskom No. 811–812. I point to the exceptional difficulty of complete supply of work from the center. Due to exhaustion of reserves, I propose that you seek to the maximum degree local resources for payment of work. Under no circumstances permit the conversion of monetary and material means designated by the center for timber procurement to other needs. Report on the measures taken to Glavleskom.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin.

★Printed from typewritten copy. Ed.